Featured Blog: Action in the Country

Monday, January 28, 2013

The Daily Local News is featuring our Blogtown Community Blogs written by people in and around your community. Each of the blogs, and their writers, are independent entities that are grouped and featured on the DLN Blogtown site .

Today’s featured blog isAction in the Country.

Latest Post:What Are You Waiting For?— We’re Not Dead Yet

The future of the Middle Class depends on America investing in the one-of-a-kind creative products and services that all artists make in every community, in every state in this country. Why? Because most of the jobs that pay middle-class salaries, the jobs lost in the 2008 financial meltdown, are not coming back. This according to a Associated Press study cited in an excellent if terrifying series in the Daily Local News business section last week (Jan. 23, 24,25) to help explain the impact of technology on middle-class jobs in developed countries. Data from the last forty years from twenty countries was collected and analyzed regarding hiring and pay, and job types, losses, and gains. This was combined with interviews with economists, tech experts, robot manufacturers, software developers and people in the labor force from CEOs to the unemployed. And the results are enough to make your hair stand on end: The job displacement that began in the modern era with the Industrial Revolution is now at a dizzying speed.